No. 23. DECEMBER, 1916. VOL. VII.

FIAT LUX.

NOTICES.

The next number of The Pharos will appear about March 24th. Contributions should be handed in not later than March 3rd.

We acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of Ruym and the Magazine of the Dover County School for Girls.

Several contributions to this number are held over from lack of space.
Copies of the current issue of The Pharos or of back numbers which are in stock may be obtained from the Editor, price 6d.; post free 7d.

The Editor would be glad to receive names and addresses of any Old. Boys, in the Services or elsewhere, who would like to receive copies.

HEADMASTER'S NOTES.

The Spring Term will extend from Thursday, 11th January, to Wednesday, 4th April (inclusive). Railway passes should be taken up to cover this period.

Scholarship holders must send this term's season tickets by post to Mr. K Coupe, Technical Institute, Ladywell, Dover. This should be done immediately they have completed their homeward journey on December 20th.

There will be no formal opening ceremony of the new School on account of the war.

The Annual Prize Distribution is postponed, but the parents will be invited to an "At Home" early in December.

EDITORIAL.

IN reviewing this term one's thoughts naturally centre on the long-anticipated change in our environment. The "New School" which at times seemed like a bright vision never to be realised, is at last a fact, and Dover County School has now a real home as well as a corporate existence. Yet on looking round at the morning assembly we realise with pleasure that the "New School" is still the same old school, though the surroundings are newer and brighter and fresher. One may think of some of our Old Pharosians who have helped to make school history and regret that they could not be with us to see the new beginning. Especially gladly would we have welcomed on that opening day the members of the Staff who are serving their country in the war. Yet we may look forward to the time when Old Boys and Masters alike will return to us—the former to visit and admire, the latter to take up their familiar duties once again—and receive their welcome as old friends in our new dwelling.

We note with deep regret the addition of six names to our Roll of Honour. Two of these names probably bear a special interest for boys now attending school. Lieut. Hosking left us so recently that he will be easily recalled by many who were his school companions and only a few years his juniors. Lieut. Eaves, though belonging to an older generation of old boys, was well known for his activities as teacher and Scoutmaster at St. Martin's. To the sorrowing relatives of all whose deaths are announced in our pages we offer our sincerest sympathy.

GLEAMS AND FLASHES.

We were pleased to receive as one of the first visitors to the new School Mrs. Withiel, H.M. Inspector, who expressed great pleasure at the planning and general efficiency of the arrangements in the building.

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We extend a hearty welcome to two new members of the Staff this term. Mrs. Baxter earned our gratitude by joining the Staff at very short notice owing to Miss Penney's inability to return in consequence of her mother's serious illness. Mrs. Baxter was educated at Hanley Municipal Secondary School and at Derby Training College, leaving the latter with a first class and distinction in Education. We know how much Mrs. Baxter's work has been appreciated by the boys in the Junior School and we could wish her temporary post might become a permanent one. We are glad to know Mrs. Baxter's services may be available at other times, if and when the country needs the services of others of the male members of the Staff.

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Mr. Mamloek left Owen's School, Islington, with a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was 27th Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1908 and took the History Tripos in 1909. He has held teaching posts at Carmarthen Grammar School, Newport (Salop) Grammar School and Reading School. We wish him every success in his work with us, which at present includes the responsibility for the mathematics of the School and the teaching of the upper forms.

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Mr. Tunnell has been transferred from the Buffs to the Machine Gun Corps and is having a period of training at Belton Park, Grantham.

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Mr. James is working at King George's Hospital, Stamford Street, London, S. E. He contributes a few particulars about the duties at a big military hospital, which appear on another page.

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Mr. Pearce writes from H.M.S. Defiance, at Devonport, that he is there finding out how "the whole of our theoretical work is bound lip with practical problems and the real machines." He has evidently found congenial work as a Naval Instructor.

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We have to thank the Hon. Henry Hannen, Chairman of the Building Committee of the Kent County Council, for presenting the School with a facsimile copy of the earliest known printed map of Kent. Only two copies of this map are known to exist, and from one of these, which is in the possession of Mr. Hannen, this facsimile was taken.

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All at School heard with great regret of Masset's loss when his father was reported as kil1ed while fighting in the French Army "pour la défense de la France et de l'Humanité." Having been carried mortally wounded from the trenches M. Masset received the "Médaille Militaire" and the "Croix de Guerre avec palme" in recognition of his heroic conduct. On behalf of the School we ask Mme. Masset and all the members of the family to accept our sincerest sympathy.

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The weekly School collection for Dover Prisoners of War had resulted up to November 28th in the addition of £20 17s. 0d. to the Fund.

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We have the following examination results to announce since our last issue:—

London Matric—Green.
Oxford Local, Senior—First Class Honours: Hadlow; Second Class Honours: Lovely, Standring; Pass: Rolfe, Knivett, Knight.
Oxford Local, Junior—Second Class Honours: Perry, Isaac; Third Class Honours: Gibbons, Friend, Ripp, Cooke, Cocks, Bond; Pass: Dearling, Plater, Virgo, Lloyd.
Boy Artificership—Kirby.
K.E.C. Junior Exhibitions—Mumford, Wilson, Waite ii., Greenstreet.

MERIT LIST.

Form V.—Costelloe (2).
Form IVa.—Pelhalll (2), Brand (2), Kirby, Romney.
Form III.—Pelham (2), Lawes, Gosby, Tomlin, Twyman.

Form IIa.—Phillips, Deverson.
Form IIb.—Browne (2), Scarlett (2), Arter (2), Drake (2), Stewart (2), Goode (2), Glogg, Quinlan, Booth, Watts, Strugnell.
Form IIc.—Lamidey (2), Bourdeaux (2), Broadhurst (2), Law (2), Dane, Nowers, Virgo, Day.
Form Ia.—Walls, Pay, Russell.
Form Ib.—Gunn (2), Cartwright (2), Dellbridge, Ward.

D.C.S. AND THE WAR.
Old Boys on Active Service.

Additions to and corrections of former lists:—

Robert Reeder (07/10), 2nd-Lieut., 1oth Manchesters

Frank Downes (04/05), 2nd-Lient., R.E.K.M.R.

Edward W. W. Brown (11/16), Artists' Rifles

H. B. Norris (03/07), Royal Flying Corps
E. H. Fry (07/12), East Kent Cyclists' Battalion, transferred to 7th Buffs.
E. S. Connell (09), 2nd-Lieut., RG.A.
Alec Worster (09), 2nd-Lieut.

MISSING.

David Parker (06/07). 8th Batt. Winnipeg Rifles

MILITARY AWARD.

2nd-Lieut. A. R Hall (05/10), Hampshire Regiment, has been awarded the Military Cross for valuable reconnaissance's and for later going forward, collecting men of all units and making them dig in on the third objective. He was then wounded.

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S. Igglesden (06/10), A. Lamidey (07/12) and F. Plowright (04/05) have been in Mesopotamia. They have all been invalided back to India, the first on account of heart trouble, and the two last named in consequence of attacks of fever. Lamidey also suffered from a slight sunstroke.

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J. Lawrence (02/03) has been invalided out of the R.A.M.C. owing to injuries caused by "gassing." We met him last August working for his pre-war employers, by whom he was being very kindly treated, as he was still liable to the recurrence of lung trouble.

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T. Durban (01/02) is now in England again after a long spell at the Front, his regiment being one of the first Territorial Units to take its place in the firing line. He has been acting as Company-Orderly-Sergeant and sends an interesting list of his duties. He says: "Our billets are scattered and I have had the task of organising the C.O,S.'s work in the matter of distributing orders so that they may reach every man, Returns of all kinds are called for daily—men entitled to gold stripe in the Company, names of every man in every room of each billet, roll of men in category Aiv, who are entitled to service leave, etc., etc. Was responsible that all duties were warned and paraded to time in correct dress. Had to make out, see through, issue with tickets, collect and make returns on all passes. Attend all Battalion, Company and Staff Parades—Headquarters being a mile distant. To warn, parade, and provide escort for all men ordered for Company or Battalion Office, know why any selected man was not on parade, where he was, and what he was doing, etc., etc., etc.

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A. Gregory (08) is in the R. E. and serving as a mechanic in a Heavy Mobile Workshop within sound of the guns. His unit has to undertake repairs of all sorts from heavy guns to rifles, not forgetting vehicles.

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H. B. Norris (03/07) has been for twelve months in the R.F.C. as a wireless operator, and E. H. Fry (07/12), who was in the Kent Cyclists' Battalion, after going to the Front was transferred to the 7th Buffs, where he met Ford, who is in the Band of the West Kents. This is the first meeting of Old Boys at the Front that we have heard of.

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W. H. G. Costelloe (09/15), who now has his commission in the R.E.'s, is undergoing his course of cavalry instruction at Aldershot.

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Norman Belchamber (08/10) is with some Canadian Forces at Folkestone.

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Several Old Boys in the Mercantile Marine have been home lately, amongst whom we have seen W. Carlton (08/12), F. Carlton (09/15), T. Hood (10/13) and R. Morford (10/15).

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F. Carlton and Hood, we are sorry to hear, have been on the sick list. May they have a speedy recovery.

Marriage.

DUNN—CASPELL,—On August 17th, at St. Barnabas' Church, Dover, by the Rev. E. L. Urch, Engineer-Sub-Lieut. Wilfred Dunn (03/04), elder son of the late James Dunn, to Emily, daughter of Frank Caspell, both of Dover.

A NOVEL SMOKE.

A. J. Lamidey (07/12) who has been serving in Mesopotamia where he was laid low by fever and a "tap" (i.e., sunstroke) is recruiting his health somewhere in the United Provinces, India. II e sends an interesting account of an incident which he witnessed.

He says: "I was out for a walk this morning and it was my good luck to see in operation the quaintest method of smoking tobacco in the world, I should think.

Of course, the smokers were natives, and having no pipe with them, their modus operandi was as follows:—

First they dug a very small, shallow hole, and then with a stick, made a sort of tunnel from the hole, with its mouth about a foot away. They then placed their tobacco in the first hole and placed a lump of smouldering pine-needles on top of it. Then one of them went to the mouth of the tunnel, made a funnel of his hands, and inhaled a surprisingly large amount of smoke. A second then followed suit and so on until all had had a few puffs."

1st CADET COMPANY C.P. (P.) R.E.

The Officers and N,C.O.'s early learned to value the advice and co-operation of Mr. Pascall in the early stages of the Company's formation; consequently it was with pleasure that the notice of the receipt of his commission "as received. For Mr. Pascall is keenly interested in the Cadet movement and successfully endeavours to improve our facility in shooting and our efficiency in military work generally. Besides this, the very knowledge that the Unit is complete in Officers, N.C.O.'s and Cadets should urge all members to excel in every part of the work.

It must be confessed that the Inspection of the Company which was held on July 26th, caused some feelings of anxiety since many Cadets were new to the conditions. But fears were somewhat allayed through the goodwill of Captain Richards, who gave the Company some thorough training at several parades previous to the ceremony. The Officers take this opportunity of thanking Captain Richards for his generous help. The parade itself was very satisfactory; the remarks addressed to the Cadets by Colonel Skey, the Inspecting Officer, must be taken to heart by each member, for it behoves all to justify the interest taken in our unit by every Officer of the C. P. (F.) R. E.

All will realise the obligation the Company owes to Captain Mowll; first for his presentation of a cup for shooting, and secondly for his continuous kindness in placing at its disposal the rifle range, the rifles and the ammunition. Now it is hoped that all Cadets will have regular practice on the range.

The Band has caused some pleasant surprise by the serious way in which it has taken up its new task. Red cheeks and sore lips are sure signs that determination to lead the Company successfully is not lacking, but, of course, with practice such signs will disappear. Since the writing of the above the Band has made its first public appearance and has done so very successfully. The following are members of the Band:—

Drummers.—Cpl. Worster, Lce.-Cpl. Romney, Cadets Hart, Latham and Jago i.

Buglers.—Lce.-Cpls. Sutton and Austin, Cadets Dixon, Taylor, Olby, Day, Malley, Thomas and Wells.

To Mr. Morford the Company owes a great debt, for he has given much time, which he can little spare, to lay the foundation for the success of the Band. It is with great regret that the Drummers and Buglers will learn that Mr. Morford has left Dover to reside in another part of the county.

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The following promotions have appeared in orders since last term:—

To be Sergeant.—Cpl. F. Licence.

To be Corporals.—Lce.-Cpl. Dearling, Lce.-Cpl. Costelloe, Lce.-Cpl. Smith, Dmr. Worster, Actg.-Cpl. J. Licence.

To be Lance-Corporals.—Cadet Sibley i, Cadet Head, Bglr. Sutton, Bglr. Austin, and Dmr. Romney.

The Company desires to express its best wishes for success to Cadets who have left the School:—Sgt. Knight, Cpls. Ripp, Armstrong and Lloyd; Lce.-Cpl. Sibley; Cadets Parker i, Parker ii, Le Sage, Palmer, Farley, Plater, Holloway, Shaw, Hopkins and Aldersley.

The following have recently joined the Company:—Wells, Arter, Twyman, Tinley, Day, Latham, Busbridge, Baldwin ii, Scarlett, Strugnell i, Strugnell ii, Jago ii, Lywood, H. Tomlin, Hunt, Ryeland ii, Bussey, Lawes and Dane.

CRICKET.

Much disappointment was experienced at the beginning of the past cricket season by the knowledge that the School would be without a ground. But obstacles are created to be overcome; consequently the cricketers amongst us regularly made the most of our short cricket practices on Tuesday and Friday evenings. Those practices were examples of the cultivation of cricket under the intensive system, six bowlers of various types at one poor batsman, but they were enjoyable and stood us in good stead in the matches against the Old Boys on July 14th, and the Parents on July 26th.

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MATCHES.
DOVER COUNTY SCHOOL V. OLD Boys.
OLD BOYS.

COUNTY SCHOOL.

FATHERS V. SONS.

SPORTS.

We have again been compelled to economise! Last year we managed to obtain two pitches every Wednesday and one on alternate Saturdays—weather permitting, of course.

Our School is now a third as large again as last year; the powers that be decree that our opportunities for football shall vary in inverse proportion (I believe that is the Maths. phrase), and so we find ourselves with one pitch every Wednesday. We do not grumble, as we know that on every other day that playing is allowed, some military or naval team has the ground, but we are eagerly looking forward to the time when we shall have our own ground back again.

Meanwhile, the new buildings seem about to offer us fresh scope for our activities. I am pleased to be able to announce that one Racquet court and two Fives courts (Rugby game) are to be built. The land adjacent to the School will, no doubt, in years to come, prove to be an admirable practising ground for football and cricket and a perfect ground for sixes. It is possible also that we shall have a Badminton Court as soon as the work of asphalting the ground is completed.

With such few facilities as we have for football, we are playing no matches at all on our own ground (this season). An exception was made in the case of the Naval Writers so that our First Eleven might try its wings; I asked once before "Où sont les neiges d'antan" and their performance leads me to repeat my question! We hope that every effort will be put forward to make a First and Second Eleven equal to those of last year, and a First Eleven capable of defeating any team of Old Boys who may challenge us!

At the beginning of term, Lovely was appointed Captain of Games; Perry, Vice-Captain; and Stand ring, Secretary.

DOVER COUNTY SCHOOL FOOTBALL CLUB.

NAVAL WRITERS F.C., 10; v. D.C.S., 2.

This match was played on November 1st in beautiful weather. The School was hopelessly outweighted and the backs and half-backs, especially Perry, are to be congratulated on their stubborn defence.

SCHOOL TEAM.—Ayling; Lovely (capt.), Costelloe; Hadlow, Perry, Gibbons: Worster (1). Standring, Dearling (1), Boom, A. C. Tomlin.

SPORTS—SUMMER TERM, 1916.

FATHERS v. SONS.

A. COLLIER JAMES.

H.T. (IIb.).

T.H.B.